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The story of Deborah, the prophetess and judge, is one of those biblical stories told to us twice, first in a prose narrative and then in a poetic celebration (the Exodus crossing of the sea in Ex 14 & 15 provides another example). In this case the details, what Western minds call "facts" and worship above all other sorts of information, are strikingly different between the two tellings: * In chapter 4: there is a focus on Canaanite oppression of the people of Israel, the battle... Topics: judges, deborah, poetry, prose, narrative, bible